Americans Have Lost VIRTUALLY ALL of Our Constitutional Rights

How Many Constitutional Freedoms Have We Lost?

This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right. (This is an updated version of an essay we wrote in February. Unfortunately, a lot of information has come out since then.)

First Amendment

The 1st Amendment protects speech, religion, assembly and the press:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Supreme Court has also interpreted the First Amendment as protecting freedom of association.

Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda.

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It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right. It is true that the amendment begins with a reference to militias: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Accordingly, it is argued, this amendment protects the right of the militia to bear arms, not the individual.

Yet, if true, the Second Amendment would be effectively declared a defunct provision. The National Guard is not a true militia in the sense of the Second Amendment and, since the District and others believe governments can ban guns entirely, the Second Amendment would be read out of existence.

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More important, the mere reference to a purpose of the Second Amendment does not alter the fact that an individual right is created. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is stated in the same way as the right to free speech or free press. The statement of a purpose was intended to reaffirm the power of the states and the people against the central government. At the time, many feared the federal government and its national army. Gun ownership was viewed as a deterrent against abuse by the government, which would be less likely to mess with a well-armed populace.

Considering the Framers and their own traditions of hunting and self-defense, it is clear that they would have viewed such ownership as an individual right — consistent with the plain meaning of the amendment.

None of this is easy for someone raised to believe that the Second Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark ages of American culture. Yet, it is time to honestly reconsider this amendment and admit that … here’s the really hard part … the NRA may have been right. This does not mean that Charlton Heston is the new Rosa Parks or that no restrictions can be placed on gun ownership. But it does appear that gun ownership was made a protected right by the Framers and, while we might not celebrate it, it is time that we recognize it.

The gun control debate – including which weapons and magazines are banned – is still in flux …

Third Amendment

The 3rd Amendment prohibits the government forcing people to house soldiers:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

While a recent lawsuit by a Nevada family – covered by (Mother Jones, Fox News and Courthouse News – alleges violation of the Third Amendment, this appears to be an isolated incident and an aberration.

So we’ll count this as an Amendment which is still being honored! Score one for We the People!

Fourth Amendment

The 4th Amendment prevents unlawful search and seizure:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Fifth Amendment

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Sixth Amendment

The 6th Amendment guarantees the right to hear the criminal charges levied against us and to be able to confront the witnesses who have testified against us, as well as speedy criminal trials, and a public defender for those who cannot hire an attorney:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Subjecting people to indefinite detention or assassination obviously violates the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial. In both cases, the defendants is “disposed of” without ever receiving a trial … and often without ever hearing the charges against them.

More and more commonly, the government prosecutes cases based upon “secret evidence” that they don’t show to the defendant … or sometimes even the judge hearing the case.

Seventh Amendment

The 7th Amendment guarantees trial by jury in federal court for civil cases:

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

As far as we know, this right is still being respected (that’s three rights still being followed).

While Justice Scalia disingenuously argues that torture does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment because it is meant to produce information – not punish – he’s wrong. It’s not only cruel and unusual … it is technically a form of terrorism.

And the federal government is trampling the separation of powers by stepping on the toes of the states and the people. For example, former head S&L prosecutor Bill Black – now a professor of law and economics – notes:

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the resident examiners and regional staff of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [both] competed to weaken federal regulation and aggressively used the preemption doctrine to try to prevent state investigations of and actions against fraudulent mortgage lenders.

Indeed, the federal government is doing everything it can to stick its nose into every aspect of our lives … and act like Big Brother.

Conclusion: While a few of the liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights still exist, the vast majority are under heavyassault.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. [Background]

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. [Background here, here and here]

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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: [Background]

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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences [Background]

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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. [Background]

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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. [Background here, here and here]

Basically, our representatives do not represent us, the Constitution no longer protects us, we have two justice systems, an unaccountable government, military, corporate/financial complex, the air, land, oceans and lakes and rivers are being fouled, our infrastructure is falling apart, poverty and hunger and unemployment are rampant, opportunities for the non-elite to rise up the economic ladder are almost non-existent, retiree benefits are being taken away, the safety net is being destroyed, education is being privatized and children are being lobotomized, college requires one to assume massive debt, the policehave become a militarized, brutal, oppressive and aggressive threat to Americans in service of the private prison industry in many cases- though I know there are many fine individual policemen- we are spied upon, lied to, overtaxed, overworked, underpaid, unappreciated, and divided by partisan passions deliberately to prevent us from uniting as a people. Our very sovereignty is threatened by free-trade acts in the works, and the solutions to these problems pre-emptively taken from us… all so that a handful of elite can steal the wealth of the world and live privileged lives of unimaginible wealth, power, and excess while inflicting pain and suffering upon the rest of us. And still they want more, and there is no tactic.they won’t use, no crime they won’t commit, no ethical line they won’t breach to attain it. When there are no consequrnces for their actions they have nothing to fear, nothing to deter ever-more psychopathic behavior, nothing to stop them from destroying this country and this planet. Only a united American public can stop this madness before it’s too late, if it isn’t already.

Paul Wade

Neither our representative or senators represent us, colinjames71. Question: Why is there different political parties in the USA if the members of Congress are there to represent we the people? Why are they representing a political party instead of we the people?

And it apparently boils down to the fact they are only representing themselves. I have never voted for anyone for more than two terms… and usually only one.

JonesJunk

“I agree. Here’s a website that deals with longevity of politicians in office..and who put them there for so many years? THE VOTERS! They can’t stay in office unless they are voted in. Dingell of course hold that virtuous-less status and now his wife, DebbieDoesDingell sits in his chair (?). Voters, our worst enemy sometimes!

Interesting; its also interesting to read the goals of the communist party. Google ‘1963 communist goals’. How many of them have they succeeded in today? Or better yet, how many of them have they not been successful in today?

Tom

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” — Winston Churchill

Very well stated. We the People can stop this madness but will a apathetic America do anything about it. I say NO. Most Americans have no idea how bad the situation is and what is worse, they don’t care. As long as they have their new and latest cars, a bank account with a few dollars, their clubs and golf courses, their malls, and of course Starbucks and Red Lobster they are satisfied to let a well known corrupt government to do what they want. Our founding fathers warned us that it is our responsibility to make sure our liberties and freedoms are not infringed on and we have failed miserably. Its our fault that we have the problems in Washington, the American people are at fault because we have not been diligent. Maybe, just maybe we shall all wake up and smell they tyranny in Washington !!

yogiman

But sadly, so many people will only vote for whoever is in office. In my 6+ decades of voting I have never voted for anyone more that twice. You really don’t learn them until they get it office and its rare that I vote for one for a 2nd term. But for any reason, twice is enough.

postal67

Such understatement.. Can’t see anything to disagree with.. It is seventy years in the making, beginning with FDR and the rest of the rats that followed

misatokatsuragi

It started before FDR. It started with Woodrow Wilson and the creation of the Federal Reserve. So it’s been over 100 years in the making.

Grover

Bingo! Once the Government started taxing the assets and work of its wealthy and working citizens, everyone wanted a piece of the pie. Now, no one cares what happens to the country, just as long as they get their piece of the pie.

Cal

“Americans have lost virtually all their rights…”
“Basically, our representatives do not represent us, the Constitution no longer protects us,…”

Wrong on all points. Why? Because our protections are written into the US Constitution and into each state’s Constitution, Because it is a compact between the states, ‘THE’ supreme contract that ALL who serve within our governments are under, the supreme Law of our land, the definer of our way of government, etc. Within it duties and “powers” are assigned to the different BRANCHES and to NAMED OFFICES WITHIN A BRANCH (not to the people who serve within them) which allows those who FOLLOW the contract, take and KEEP the Oath to use.

Daniel Webster: “We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land – nor, perhaps,
the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.”

It is important that the people READ the US Constitution and their own state’s Constitution. Again, why? Because the people also have duties that are put into writing within our governments – and they are IMPORTANT duties.

WHO is constitutionally required to…
— Enforce the US Constitution (supreme Law) and each state’s Constitution (highest Law of the state),
— Enforce and keep the “Laws of the Union” (which are constitutional laws ONLY),
— Protect the country against all enemies both domestic and foreign, and
— “to suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”?

The Militia. Who is the Militia (and it is NOT any governmental agency, LE or military)? That is “We the people of the united States”. That is right, we are the Militia who is to hold accountable those that serve within our governments – state and federal. But there is more to it then that. We are ALL (able-bodied) required to train as the Congress requires the military to be trained, and to be knowledgeable of the US Constitution and our own state’s Constitution because those is/are the only “boss” we have as the Militia – we are the Constitutions enforcement arm, and how can we LAWFULLY enforce what we do not know or understand? The Congress can call forth the Militia to use for those purposes, but it is the US President or the Governor of the state that gives the orders DIRECTLY to the Militia leader(s). The Militia takes no orders from anyone else, and those who are serving within the Militia are bound to see that the ONLY enforcements are those that in Pursuance thereof the US Constitution/and or state Constitution from either of them.

That was done so that America could never become a “police state”; and since we are FORBIDDEN to have a permanent military we could never come under military control – we keep our nation safe while from our trained ranks a military is drawn forth if needed. BTW, here under our legitimate government there is NO SUCH THING as “martial law” nor “emergency powers”.

The duties that those that serve within the state and federal governments have to the Militias are found in Clause 16.

Clause 16: “To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the
States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress”.

Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first
Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights: “Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service (Militia) on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly
anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.”

George Washington: “It may be laid down, as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government…, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.” (“Sentiments on a Peace Establishment”, letter to Alexander Hamilton; “The Writings of George Washington”)

President Andrew Johnson: “Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.”

So what is all that being done by those who serve within our governments against the Natural rights of the people? What those that serve within our governments are required to do is summarized in the Preamble to the US Constitution, it says exactly WHY we formed our governments, and within the US Constitution, their contract, it lays out exactly how those that serve within our governments at ALL levels do that…

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.”

So when you hear or read that “The Supreme Court has interpreted…”, laugh because that is not the authority delegated to those that serve within the judicial branches of our governments. It is OUR document, and what it says is exactly what it means. The US Constitution CREATED the judicial branch, judges, etc and they too, are Oath bound to that document. Remember judges issue OPINIONS, not interpretations, not laws, etc. It is the people, as jurors who decide not just the guilt or innocence of the person charged, but they also decide if the Law (and it must be constitutional) is a “good law” or needs to be done away with; or if it does not need to be used in this particular case because of the circumstances of the case; and they also must decide if the judge is using the constitutionally required “good Behaviour” (Constitutional spelling) found in Article 3, Section 1. Good behavior is the judge doing the duties constitutionally assigned (US Constitution, and if it also applies, state Constitution they serve under), taking and KEEPING the Oath(s).

Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822): “For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution.”

Nunn vs. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846): ” `The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest
degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right.”

Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859): “The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It
is one of the “high powers” delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.’ A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is
above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.”

Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878): “To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm … is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”

Those who were sent to amend the Articles of Confederation has no authority to draw up a new Constitution. Many sane people like Patrick Henry and George Mason knew the centralization of more power was not a positive. PH said he smelled a rat and was one of many who insisted on the Hill of Rights being added. The end of the Republic was in passing of the 14th Amend which~read Andrew Johnsons comments on this legislation (made w/a rump Congress) The final nail in coffin was the 1871/Constitution OF that replaced the Constitution FOR the united States. For anyone reading, if there was no 2nd Constitution then how do you get a Constitution of an entity that didn’t exist when written? uS archives show original but look at search results and all you’ll get is OF results. Sometimes it’s the hidden things in plain sight.

Tonto

These inalienable rights mentioned in the article were always an illusion.

The only inalienable right you have is to turn around and walk away. You may reap a bullet in the back for exercising that right, but you still have the right to walk away from this system.

Vote with your pocketbook. Buy less. Do less. Volunteer not at all. Donate to no cause. Invest not at all, lest you incur taxes to support this insidious cabal. Let your feet drag on the ground. Salute not this flag ever again. If you see a fire, raise not any alarm. Your country has been stolen from you by these money-printing fiends.

Let the poison fruits of the Obama Administration shrivel and die on the vine.

mhchaos

Inalienable rights were NEVER an illusion.

People like you seem to be, refuse to accept your duty as a citizen.

You have a duty to participate in politics and help remove representatives that are harmful to the cause of freedom and the nation.

You seem to think that people only have the ability to be pushed around and “walk away” if they don’t like to be pushed around.

Truly sad and pathetic.

Tonto

Duty as a citizen? I laugh from my belly.

Tell all that to Geronimo, what you said about being pushed around and a duty as a citizen.

The state is an illusion. There are only murderers behind the weapons of the state. There are no citizens. There are the murderers, and those to be murdered.

Tonight, with this vote in the Senate to continue printing money for Obama’s planned destruction of the middle class, we are all on the list of those to be murdered.

mhchaos

At least Geronimo had guts and will to try.

You are nothing.

Tonto

You are looking in a mirror. And there, in your mirror that looks out into your world, you see nothing that compares with yourself. It is your perception’s shackle, mhchaos. There is nothing honorable in your delusion.

It is not your fault you think you have the whole thing figured out. That’s one of the most common maladies of men. It permits their perpetual slavery. They worship themselves endlessly, until they come up with a busted flush when they die, without ever having lived.

Yes, I am nothing. And therefore I cannot be made to be part of the illusion of the inalienable rights of men. I am liberated. You are a slave to your own cowardly delusions that all depend on others recognizing who and what you think you are.

mhchaos

Nope. You’re just a zero.

survivor

Tonto: The best now is screw unto others as they screw unto you.

Why
work hard when the cronies in government can just take away everything
you worked for and what most of those chanting from their stomaches
don’t realize is that power has always decided the haves and have nots
not some worthless peace of paper that bush wiped his butt with along
with plenty of past presidents.

Least people like chaos
make it easier to spot the suckers and even easier to avoid them. Not
to good to be around people who don’t have a head in reality.

misatokatsuragi

“Why
work hard when the cronies in government can just take away everything
you worked for”

Right. ‘A government that is big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take away everything you have’ – Thomas Jefferson

lavenderlady

I agree with you, Tonto. I say we should form intentional communities, and go back to the barter system. A lot of people don’t want to leave their comfy homes, but don’t they understand that Agenda 21 will take it from them anyway?

Joe Jakkerton

Hows that working out for you. Got all the representative you want? Harmful to what freedom?

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

mhchaos

We are free.

If we take back what was always ours. Not the d.c’s to decide to make rules and regulations upon.

We became lazy and decadent. And your attitude shows it.

Sontauran Empire

We used to be free.

I don’t agree with the above nihilistic response of a net drag on society, but we are no longer free. Take a look at California, where a 2/3 majority means that ballot initiatives are useless.

The real solution is to be a productive member of society, give them as little money as possible, and raise your children to do the same. Unless we can vote them out because their culture dies under their feet, then we will collapse as a whole.

Capital G

I hate to burst the author’s bubble about no violations of the 3rd amendment….

7th amendment: more and more many purchases are tainted with binding arbitration clauses that require you to surrender your right to legal action, and be subject to binding arbitration instead, in which, of course, the corporation, or company that is selling the goods, or requiring the contract, get to select the arbitrator, and deal with them on a regular basis. So who do you thing the arbitrator will find in favor of. the consumer they deal with one time, or the company that they deal with on a regular basis, basically providing them job security. Check your cell phone contract, car contract, rental contracts, or any number of contracts. this has become an alarming trend, denying many with valid claims for suit the right to pursue the,. Some will say, well you dont have to sign the contract, and technically they are correct, but it would make it hard to get anything, or anything done without many of these things, so it kind of puts you under a monopoly type situation

MolonLabe Industries

Exactly, this is most definitely the case…Did you know that if you dispute the findings of the IRS if you sue them you must have the trial in tax court and you get no jury trial? Although it is civil you get NO JURY TRIAL….So scrub the 7th…

diaz’s cashed bowl

Guns of Brixton…

Arizona

FREEDOM AND LIBERTY are never to late,it just means they will need more rope then they thought,,isn’t it great how many volunteers have applied to test the rope.,every time I look in the newspaper I see more volunteers,soon ,we should know who every commie in america is …..THEN WE CAN GET DOWN TO THE BUSINESS,of running the country ,without any commies interfering in the nations business……AND right now the count, is around 50% of the population are commies,and its amazing how many of them have foreign passports in their pockets…..BEAR IN MIND ..ALL DEMONCRATES ..are commies,,,,,,so the number might be a lot higher………….

Don Robertson

Devaluation of the currency was omitted in the article, because it is not typically thought of as one of our rights, to be free from currency devaluation. It is one of the most important rights, and the easiest on to get the populace to rally behind when it is abridged.

Again with the raising of the debt ceiling, the government is stealing from us all.

Middle class Americans are furious with the government for the ongoing QE and deficit spending theft. Lower class Americans think they are benefiting, but in reality, they too are losing ground. Even the relatively rich are taking it on the chin, even if they look around and revel in their own standard of living because everyone else is being pushed further and further into squalor every time the debt ceiling is raised.

Neither deficit spending nor quantitative easing create jobs. Both quantitative easing and deficit spending destroy jobs, wealth and our shared standard of living. The credit economy is little more than a parasite on the health of the nation. And the argument to raise the debt ceiling (so the deficit spending can go on, meaning more money is going to be borrowed) was that we cannot default on the national debt. This was a charade. This was not about paying off the debt. This was again about borrowing more money and adding to the debt.

VOTE THEM OUT!

Paul Wade

As I’ve posted before Don, I never vote for anyone more that twice and usually only once. Why do the people vote for the same one in the office instead of voting for someone to replace them when it’s obvious the one in office is doing a lousy job for the people? They’re working for the government and themselves only.

Let’s face it folks, Congress is breaking us and putting our heirs so deep in dept they will never get out and it is not an accident. I believe you can call it communism.

lavenderlady

Voting doesn’t work. Once in office, they are bribed, threatened, or blackmailed into whatever is wanted from them. Their families are threatened, and even their own very lives, I’m sure.

There used to be State Guard units in every state of the union to protect their states and a National Guard to protect the nation from outside invasions.

The state guard unites were abolished when Governor George Wallace used the Alabama State

State guard against Dr. Martin Luther King.

But why is the National Guard being assigned overseas instead of being kept at home the stop internal invasion? We are obviously being invaded by Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama today… with Congress’ approval.

Carl_Herman

Thank you, GW. Yeah, you can’t keep track of this stuff easily, and this is the best I’ve seen!

Target4Tyrants

~Agreed~Good work~

Target4Tyrants

~Agreed~Good work~

ralfyman

The Second does refer to the individual right to bear arms, but uses that to justify the presence of regulated militias.

MJB

“Well regulated” at the time of the writing was meant to be “well stocked” or “strong”… according to Constitutional scholar Dr Edwin Viera, Ph

ralfyman

You need to look at Art. 1 Sec. 8 and the militia acts. For more details, read

Correct. But even today’s online Dictionary.com, in the definitions of “regulate”, only the first has to do with what we think of as “regulations”. Number 2 is “to adjust to some standard or requirement, as amount, degree, etc.”; number 3 is “to adjust so as to ensure accuracy of operation” and number 4 is “to put in good order”. So even the most modern digital dictionary places more emphasis on meanings which in the context of the Second Amendment mean “keep your guns clean, oiled, and zeroed”. Hear, hear.

George Challenger

Regarding double jeopardy, the DoJ does an end run around this by allowing the states to attempt prosecution first, and then if that fails they prosecute on Federal charges. If they want you badly enough they’re not going to let a little thing like the Constitution slow them down, so I’m afraid that one’s right out the window as well.

jhgl hgyi

Yeah, that whole dual sovereignty thing is a joke, stating that different government bodies can each put you on trial. Because actually if you commit the same crime in two different states, such as shooting someone across state lines, it’s possible that they could both try to prosecute you too, as well as the federal government. There is also the issue of civil crimes, so in this case, a wrongful death lawsuit. That’s FOUR possible trials and prosecutions for the same exact crime. I don’t know about you but that doesn’t seem constitutional or fair. The governments should have to decide which entity gets to put you on trial, and that’s it. Preferably any civil lawsuits would have to be pressed during this trial as well, applying the reasonable doubt standard or at least clear and convincing evidence (not that stupid preponderance of evidence standard which is too high a chance for a false positive and therefore violates due process).

Robin Quidam

This is a good article, and while a few points are open to interpretation, the overall message is clear and accurate.

Please note the typo in the last section:
“As thethe preamble to the Declaration of Independence shows, the American government is still carrying out many of the acts the Founding Fathers found most offensive:”

should be:
“As the preamble to the Declaration of Independence shows, the American government is still carrying out many of the acts the Founding Fathers found most offensive:”

“the” is duplicated.

lavenderlady

Except it’s inaccurate to call them the “American” government in the first place.

We can’t get our rights back. The government and military will make sure if you are too far out of line, something will happen to, either silence you or make you disappear. I never thought I would grow up scared of my own government and it’s corruption. God, the Great Spirit, or whatever you believe, help us.

steve0321

As to the 6th Amendment, redistribution of wealth to ANYONE is wrong, not just to the “super elite”. Why should I fund those who WILL not work?? I think more should have been written about the total destruction of the 10th Amendment. The 10th has been trampled on since the civil war and is pretty much gone.

joe anon 1

being anti catholic, anti christian, anti christian values are very accepted in u.s.
being anti jew, anti israel will get one labeled, acted upon as a terrorist.

Washington76

Government Responds to EPIC’s Supreme Court Challenge of NSA Telephone Record Program

Great balanced article that unlike other sites, doesn’t only focus on the rights that go along with their ideologies.

JK474

How can you discuss the Fourth Amendment without mentioning the TSA? Having to choose between entering a porno scanner or getting a physical groping of your private parts in order to get on a plane is as gross and ugly a violation of your 4th Amendment rights as can be imagined. And the TSA isn’t stopping with air travel — they are extending their police state tactics to railroad stations, bus stations, and random road blocks.

misatokatsuragi

Exactly! I’m like you also in that I can’t imagine a topic on the violation of our rights and no one even mentioning the TSA or the DHS.

fdfsfd

oh my god you this blog and its commenters love their melodrama. the sky is falling the sky is falling

fdfsfd

oh my god you this blog and its commenters love their melodrama. the sky is falling the sky is falling

Sontauran Empire

Baaaaaa.

Everything is fine.
Everything is fine
Everything MUST BE fine.
I WILL NOT BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING IS NOT FINE!

Four legs good…

JonathanF

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

misatokatsuragi

Baaaaaa.

Everything is fine.

I also see you have four legs.

theescotsman

AmericansRestoringAmerica, which is a dot com. use it or lose it: Grassfire Communications.

theescotsman

This is where and how we unite!

usmcmailman

Time to FIRE the Government, Congress and the Senate !

The Time of the Signs

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
Psalm 33:12

It stands to reason that if a nation or people turn away from the LORD,
they forfeit their blessing from the Almighty.

Our “rights” do not come from government!!! We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Holiness. We gained a protection from governmental abuses in a document called the Constitution because our fathers suffered to honor God with their daily lives. They lived for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Why is anyone surprised that the hedge of His protection is lost because we no longer strive to honor God with our daily lives? Indeed we as a nation and people have become ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

There is no political solution to a spiritual problem.

Wake the flock up.

not authorized

What if the Bible is/was corrupted, and the Almighty one, lives among you. Today.

What if he has become most displeased?

Paul warned you. Treat everyone as if they were messengers of God themselves. Maybe it should have read, treat others how you wish to be treated, as it maybe God himself standing in front of you.

Proudatheist

Oh stfu. America is a negative agnostic. America herself (not the citizens) has never been a nation of god. She has only been portrayed and misrepresented as such by the mostly Christian population. It’s in our damn constitution for fucked sake.

Tom

“Christ” means “the anointed one”. What was he anointed with? We now know that it was a tincture of cannabis in olive oil. Maybe we really would be better off today if politicians were sworn in with this ancient ritual of awakening rather than the easily ignored inauguration ceremony with one hand on the Bible and the other with fingers crossed behind their back.

Bill

Well, this list of lost rights tells me our government and the people running it are are totally tyrannical – and what was the 2nd amendment for?

Sontauran Empire

A doomsday provision, for when all other rights fail.

“There are four boxes to be used in the defense of
liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order.” – Ed
Howdershelt

abinico

The people that run things know the constitution is only there to create the illusion of freedom for the ignorant masses. In reality a number of secret societies like Masons and Skull & Bones run things. Don’t believe this, well try getting an invite to the next Bohemian Grove get together.

hammondhank

Constitution?! WHAT Constitution?! This country has been done for for decades.

Out Constitutional Liberties were not “lost” but were stolen by lies, chicanery, and thievery. When “freedom of religion,” that is, the globalist’s version of religious freedom, becomes profitable to them again, Poof! those who are still here will suddenly discover it was not “lost” after all. You will be given a wide choice of pantheistic beliefs and rituals as long as you recognize that the Beast is supreme.

The content of the article is excellent. I wish I could use their own techniques on them and do the Clockwork Orange thing and wire open every elected official’s eyes to make them read it. But do not naïvely call the rights lost when they were hijacked and stolen. I am not nit-picking.

Spiritually, there is a BIG WHALLOPING difference. The Old Testament has stringent outlines of how God views property-rights law. If the thief is caught, the compensation is double the value of what was stolen (Ex 22). Proverbs 6:31 speaks of a sevenfold return when the thief is caught. Want to stick to the New Testament? Fine. Zaccheus gave back four times what he stole. The point is, restitution is given for that which is illegally taken. To hold the globalists accountable before God, use the real term: Constitutional freedom has been stolen.
“Lost” items and people are sought until they are found. Stolen articles are either brought back with extra restitution for the trouble, or they are ultimately avenged by God with retribution.

HChris

Jesus said, “If anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.” Luke 6:30.

Olvar

A literal meaning of the verb αἴρω, “take” in that verse is “to bear away what has been raised.” Some translations use the word “borrow.”
The following sentence puts it in context: Do to others as you would have them do to you.… (v. 31).

In any event, the general teaching of Jesus at this point in His sermon was to caution persons not to cling too tightly to their stuff and to be generous with their things.

Speech is an entirely different category because speech has a strong spiritual component. The worlds were formed by speaking them into being, after all, HB 11:3. Faith, (without which it is impossible to please God HB 11:6) comes by hearing, RM 10:17.

Jesus was clearly speaking about taking things that you own in this world. He was not referring to stealing speech, which is your life-support.

If you want to troll, you will have to up your game.

HChris

Definitely not trying to troll, are you?

I agree, Jesus was not speaking about stealing speech. But, neither was property rights in Exodus 22 referring to speech. Neither was Proverbs 6:31 and neither was Zaccheus. So what are you talking about?

Christians spoke and heard the truth about our Faith without any constitutional guarantee for millennia – and will continue to do so.

Also, I haven’t been able to find any evidence that ‘αἴρω’ means “to borrow.” Strong’s Greek concordance cites Luke 6:30’s use of ‘αἴρω’ to mean “to take away from another what is his or what is committed to him, to take by force.” ‘δανίσασθαι’ is the word used in Matthew 5:42 which is translated as “to borrow.” But that is not what Luke 6:30 says. So, I’m not sure what you are talking about here either.

David McElroy

Good points are made. What of basic principles such as “No man is above the law”, “All men are equal before the law”, a “fully informed jury” that can judge not only the defendant’s alleged violation of the law, but the law itself! What of the states’ right to nullification of egregious law? What of laws being enacted by congressional representatives who do not even read the bills? What of certain amendments enacted but not properly ratified by the states? What of the states being stripped of their control of their senators?

Carson

More ridiculous emoting and hysteria from a Right Wing that has lost all credibility and has truly jumped the shark. Unfortunate that you do not demand better from yourselves. History will not reflect kindly upon the way the Right has behaved over the last 5 years. Your grandchildren will be ashamed of you.

troll detector

I love how you think there is a “right” and “left”.

they work for the same people.

Jeremy

I take it you got poor grades in grammar class.

misatokatsuragi

What’s grammar got to do with anything?? The right and left DO work for the same people.

B

I think you made a mistake in the idea that protection against double jeopardy is intact. If you are found innocent of murder locally, you very likely will face charges of violating someones civil rights federally.

B

I think you made a mistake in the idea that protection against double jeopardy is intact. If you are found innocent of murder locally, you very likely will face charges of violating someones civil rights federally.

Dario

Americans didn’t lose any Constitutional Rights. One cannot
lose any rights; one can only give up his rights. Simply Americans lost their
identity as a human being as men and women. They simply voluntarily became
biological robots; brainless zombies. They have sold their souls to devil
psychopathic masters. Americans have become consumers; Brainless McDonald and
Mickey Mouse consumers; Consumers of Plastic Culture. Americans soldiers
voluntarily go to foreign countries to kill people. How many millions people
have American soldiers killed for the last 60 years? They have done these all
crimes voluntarily. German soldiers were forced to go to wars. Now Americans
are losing their own freedom. The lesson is that you should never serve devil
forces. Now those same devil forces want to destroy you.

misatokatsuragi

Exactly!

joanna

What do you mean being anti catholic is a suspician? Are you ppl against catholics?

joanna

What do you mean being anti catholic is a suspician? Are you ppl against catholics?

Sontauran Empire

I would think that being pro-catholic would be suspicious, given our policies against abortion, gay marriage, etc.

JonathanF

I speak only for myself. I am very much against the papacy. Surely you know that it slaughtered millions upon millions during the Dark Ages. The world will learn at some point here that it is has not changed in character since those times.

It arrogantly changed the Ten Commandments and the Sabbath and boasts of the change. I believe in the Bible not the popes.

“The Sunday…is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.” American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883

“Sunday…It is the law of the Catholic Church alone…” American Sentinel (Catholic) June 1893

“Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles …. From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.” Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August, 1990

“Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act… And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons. Nov. 11, 1895.

“Sunday is our MARK of authority…the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” – Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept. 1, 1923.

lmoore

funny thing…everyone reading this article online and posting a comment can now be considered a possible terrorist!

zonkedout1

I would argue that the double jeopardy aspect of the amendment may be honored in word, but not spirit. Set up to make sure that people are clearly guilty, and can be proven so before being taken to court has been superceded by a plea bargaining system that forces people to cop to lesser crimes or risk losing a great deal more. The bar for adequate legal representation is also quite low. When all is said and done, many people are in jail for things that should not be illegal that they didn’t do in the first place. Property seizures w/o a guilty verdict are also a clear violation of double jeopardy. Any time the state brings a civil case instead of a criminal one is also a way to bypass evidentiary requirements because the bar for liability is easier to hurdle, and the forms of evidence that can be admitted are a lot more lenient.

J. Williams

Mens Rea is being ignored.

Robert Barsocchini

Washington exemplifies every reason the colonists broke from England.

Debra

First amendment Rights Abused by Target? My husband and I were dismayed by the Target store in our city of Albuquerque New Mexico which is located at Montgomery plaza refusing to allow the free exercise of our first amendment rights in the parking lots. While we were casting our vote, the Target management refused to allow advocates holding signs For and against the 20 week abortion pain ban legislation being voted on in our city to stand 100 feet or more from the voting poll place. It was not clear whether two of them were on Target property or plaza property. Either way, Target threatened to have them all arrested if they didn’t leave the parking voting area. They were peacefully holding up signs supporting For or against a very important legislation being voted on in our city, not starting a riot! We are disappointed and concerned that Target missed the opportunity to support FREE SPEECH while not necessarily taking sides on a sensitive important issue saving women and babies agony and death. I will not shop any more at Target if I can help it!

Todd Hill

It’s not getting worse…it is worse. And Colin is right, only a united American Public can stop this onslaught. Can everybody now see what the great cry for “diversity” has gone up by the powers-that-be? Yeah, now you get it. If we focus on our commonality, we might be unified, but by using diversity as a rallying cry, I can keep all of the factions at each others throat, preventing them from working together.

It’s almost genius in its design.

misatokatsuragi

Indeed. It’s the same genius design that invented a new enemy (muslims) for us to focus on so that we won’t be unified, just as it was in Nazi Germany when the zionists made the jews out to be the enemy, and the german constitution was abolished and millions of German citizens (not just the 6 million jews you only hear about) were slaughtered.

pbr90

Why? Because Congress doesn’t read the bills they vote for?

Why we are paying Congress to be benchwarmers who do nothing, virtual shills for corporate and special interests with rhetoric of government.

thegodemperor

This is what happens when you let the country become a corporatist
state. The elected officials don’t care about their constituents. They
care about their donors. And this is why we need to push for an
amendment ending corporate personhood and BANNING corporations from
donating. Also to make elections publicly financed.

jhgl hgyi

This is why we need Ron Paul. For future congress and presidential elections we should use this page as a list of demands, and make the candidates sign a contract to follow through with them if elected.

J. Williams

This is why we need ‘the citizens’ to speak up!

John

There is another item in the Declaration of Independence that I think fits almost exactly. I can’t quote it offhand, but it is roughly: He has opened a multitude of offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass the people and eat out their substance. Eg. EPA, DHS,NSA,DOE,etc.

Cavalor Epthith

The vast majority of those rights which this article states
that have been taken away from the American people were taken away because of
an act of terrorism against the United States. The majority of the crimes
against freedom pointed out in this article are the result of a government
serving their corporate masters beginning in the autumn of 2001 to secure
wealth and continuity for the foreseeable future with no regard for the common
citizen. This is not a liberal or a Progressive conspiracy this is all birthed
from the womb of the neoconservatives that were in power when al Qaeda struck
in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. While the common citizen was
glued to his or her television weeping and Palestinians danced in the streets
of Gaza passing out sweet treats to children, the real power in America in
corporate boardrooms saw this as the greatest golden opportunity in human
history to corrupt a representative democracy and turn it into an oligarchy
virtually overnight. The battles we fight here Neocon1 aren’t really important
because as you often point out I’m not in the United States and to the powers
that be in your country you and millions of partisan individuals like you are
doing their bidding by thinking you still have some power to control the game.

Liam YOung

no one mentioning that fact that FBI can entrap anyone to commit a “crime”

CheetahFang258

I find this very silly actually, Aren’t you speaking out right now? Should they have taken this down? You’re a journalist aren’t you? Who says the drone strike came directly from the US government, all the cases you have cited are only a few cases. Anonymous has done this many times, journalists have written anti-USA pieces all the time. Hell there’s a newspaper completely dedicated to “the insane corruption in the USA”. There are assassinations on suspected terrorists because the USA is paranoid. The only real issue is privacy… By the way about the peaceful protests, the peaceful protests have been squashed by local police departments not state police departments. The death penalty is in no way cruel or unusual either if you’re talking about that. Assassinations are allowed because habeas corpus was suspended, Bush did that but guess who else did? Lincoln. The government is spying on everything you do every word I type as a matter of fact but to be honest I really don’t think its that bad. In the paranoid state that the USA is in I honestly do not blame them, They don’t care what you watch your personal secrets all they wanna know is if you are a terrorist. Most of the stuff you cite is from your website too, which I can’t make sure is reliable. Its a bizarre list of things to get on the watchlist of the NSA and such but that’s only because terrorists have probably done something like that in the past.

I.F.PAID.TROLLS.

Fuck off troll! Are you a Mexican worker or basement worker? I won’t even argue with you, cause you probably paid and I’m not.

CheetahFang258

looool

Gail Newman

Good blog, but you miss the point. In Mc Culloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court decreed our government’s favorite decision. It literally threw out the Constitution, declaring that it and any amendments are unconstitutional, and changed the form of our government. It was a bloodless coup d’etat. Because mandatory public education has been weaponized, most American’s aren’t even aware of this.

To read about how you are being manipulated into demanding things from government that no sane or properly educated person would never ask for let alone demand, please read my free e-book athttp://www.tosavetheworld.org.

Click on the link for the free e-book to see the Table of Contents with descriptions. The chapter titles are links that will take you to pdf copies of the document.

The death penalty is also cruel and unusual punishment. The court might try to argue that for a punishment to be forbidden, it must be cruel AND unusual, but surely that’s doesn’t fly. “Unusual” is too vague in that regard. You might say that punishing someone by killing or torturing them is not unusual, since it’s been done time and time again in history. But for a fair punishment, it seems pretty unusual. It’s certainly cruel, even if it’s done quickly.

I’d argue that jail can be cruel AND unusual, because if you ever get out, good luck finding another job, and hope you have enough money just to catch up on that time lost from work, especially if you also got fined. Hope you don’t mind the other inmates raping and beating you up, and good luck just not going insane if you’re stuck there for the rest of your life and have nothing else to live for. Humans weren’t meant to be caged animals. It’s not implausible to prefer getting robbed or raped yourself over life in prison, or even the death penalty.

Coonhound

A quick look at the 2012 GOP caucuses (esp-MAINE) should set anyone straight about the REAL state of politics in the United States of aMErica. Even Mitt the dip Romney admitted in the documentary ‘Mitt’ that they stole the nomination from Ron Paul. Its just as well, he most likely would not have made it past the first 5 months (Old guy=heart attack=’was his time’). Kinda like the last two Presidents who questioned the need for the Fed (JFK) or even just called for transparency and auditing the Fed (Reagan). JFK said we have the Treasury Dept why pay interest on our own money, logical question no? Any coincidence that Mr ‘Read My Lips’ was Ronnie Boys VP even though many knew he despised GB and his comments referring to his economic policies as voodoo economics? Now who REALLY ran the White House during the 80s? Iran-Contra? Ex-CIA head as VP? More coincidence? The tables had to turn in 2000. It was a Bush who needed a VP to run the White house cuz Dubya needed Cheney for lack of a fully functioning cerebral cortex. Kinda like the Wizard of Oz dubya starring as scarecrow and cheney as tin man no brain no heart now the Lion, cant figure that one out a little help here………

Jeremy

Oh look, a Republican living in an alternate reality.

Pinkfire90

In reality our liberties and our freedoms are
being strangled by all of the government oppression

Ryan

Who ever wrote this is a complete nut head! Peaceful protests! What peaceful protests!? Al the “peaceful protests” have turned to rioting and for example this Black Friday protest, that was not peaceful they were hurting the merchants on Michigan avenue just because they are white! All of our rights are protected and America is and always will be the best country in the world. (Obama isn’t helping)

J. Williams

They also keep 1/4 to 1/3 of Americans out of the workforce because they have poor credit/driving infractions-violations /any kind of criminal history- but what they fail to realize is that American society is highly regulated and public. If you were born in this country, every aspect / action of your life is regulated, documented, and public; and due to the 3 – 5,000 criminal laws on the books in this country, more and more Americans are being labeled ‘criminals’ when they are not. They’re eliminated from hiring pools immediately; giving the false impression that we don’t have enough skilled workers in this country. NOT TRUE!!! What they are doing to Americans is WRONG! And it needs to STOP!

naksuthin

All rights are tempered by
1. public safety
2. rights of others

That’s why…even though I have the right to “freedom of speech”
1. I cannot yell “fire” in a crowded theater
2. I cannot call in a ‘crank” bomb scare at a university
3. I cannot put my “Vote for McCain” sign on YOUR property
4. I cannot share sensitive government secrets
5. I cannot take something YOU have authored and republish it without your permission

The Constitution isn’t like the Bible. The laws of the Bible aren’t based on any principles. If God said Jews were not allowed to eat pork, or shrimp or deer meat. That’s it. No exceptions.
The Constitution is a document that is based on principles.
1. All men are created equal
2. All men are entitled to freedom of religion
3. All men are entitled to freedom of speech
4. etc.

The problem is that the original authors of the Constitution didn’t really believe that ALL MEN are created equal, entitled to freedom of speech, etc. At least not the black ones.
Black men…and white women (for that matter) had very few rights. And that’s the way the authors of the Constitution meant it to be. Women and Blacks were NOT “all men”
It wouldn’t be for YEARS after all the authors of the Constitution were dead and buried that Blacks and women were even allowed to VOTE.

So if anyone says that the Constitution is a literal document that never changes and is meant to be taken word for word…just remember that the authors lived in a very different world and looked at life a lot different from the way we do today.

And that’s why we interpret the constitution in the light of OUR present experience. Not in the way THEY wrote it.

mike keane

ANY support for Hillary Clinton is a
support for the status quo and contrary to the well-being of the US Dollar as
it currently exists as the “Sovereign Currency”, or “International
RESERVE Currency”.

The “central banks”, the world-over, are insolvent
and they are resolute, in their refusal to open their books for inspection, as
is expected through disclosure of “M3”- an aggregate of banking
assets versus liablities.

There are, presently, 1200 Trillion Dollars owed (google
“Quadrillion”) to an international shortfall in central banking,
described as “Notional Derivatives”. These “derivatives”
are simply, “short sale bets” predicated upon fraud.

Google: “Lynn Szymoniak”.

To begin to understand the importance of
“derivatives” and why they are a threat to the US Dollar, go watch
Michael Lewis’ new movie, “The Big Short”.

The banks destroyed themselves through subprime lending- the
emperor has no clothes- the banks have not allowed inspection of their books
(“M3”), since 2006.

Thanks to the Clintons and their 3 republican playmates, in
the aftermath of the demise of “Glass-Steagall” and subprime lending,
the banks next experimented in “Notional Derivatives”, that are, in
turn, predicated upon forgerys and fraud.

Google: “Securitization Fail”. The pension plans
have been robbed, as has the middle class and it is an intentional scam.

Donald Trump’s rudeness to HillBillary is a scam, no less than
“Benghazi”, insofar as it is a direct attempt to provide her further
victimhood and thereby influence the simple-minded.

The Clintons are a very real threat to the national security
of the US because they, and their elitist minority PALS are fixing to disrupt
property rights, here and abroad; the rule of LAW, here and abroad; and ultimately
debase the US Dollar.

Right NOW, the criminal banking elites
and their playmates, the Clintons, are desperate to conceal the fact there
isn’t one, single, REMIC TRUST that is legitimate- all the “pools of loans
(REMIC TRUSTS)” are defective and the foreclosures are the product of forgerys
and FRAUD!!!

If you are facing foreclosure: find out
which “Trust” claims they “own” your debt. Then find out which state, either
Delaware or New York, they claim to be registered in. Then contact the
secretary of state they claim to be registered in… BIG SECRET: they never
applied to do business- they are a legal NON-ENTITY. They can’t sue anybody for
anything!

Get a letter of “Attestation” from the
secretary of state that shows they aren’t registered. Do a “Freedom of
Information Act” to that secretary of state and then send another to the SEC…

IT IS PAST TIME THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE
RISE UP AND PUT THE CRIMINAL, BANKING FILTH AND THEIR PLAYMATE POLITICIANS IN
JAIL!

PLANT MORE ACORNS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ARE GONNA NEED MORE TREES.

Christian Daly

In regard to double jeopardy and due and due process, take a look at Melanie’s law in Massachusetts. It was made law in 2005. In 2008 the law was made retroactive to a person’s entire lifetime. If tried in Massachusetts prior to 2008, no matter the outcome of the case and the defendant’s accomplishment of requirements of the courts, when going to renew their license they will be required to perform additional actions by the department of Motor Vehicle without a hearing in order to renew their license. Namely the use of an IID. The courts state that it is not a punitive measure and it is a civil matter which gets them around the fifth amendment. However the device costs 125 dollars to install and 85 dollars per month for the entire two years it is on the vehicle. A police officer may pull any person over with this device without cause and force them to use the device while stopped. The device regularly malfunctions depending on what foods have been eaten, chewing gum, tooth paste or even vapor from the car’s windshield wipers coming into the cabin of the car. The argument that it is not punitive and only remedial is completely absurd. It allows the department of motor vehicle to make a determination of the requirement for the device without due process based on their subjective view of the adjudication of any previous charges back to the beginning of when the person first obtained a driver’s license. Without exception, in the cases where the previous charges were plea bargained or continued without finding, the department of motor vehicle may make a determination of guilt without due process.

Why do you think this is happening? We’re obviously lacking morals and atheists on a daily basis tell us we need to become a secular nation because that’s what the founding fathers wanted, but the truth is, the founding fathers wanted people free of manipulation and the right to work. The first amendment is a big one due to the fact people are losing their jobs for what they say, they may not be fired for what they say, but they definitely are getting fired in other ways because they “offended” their boss.

Juan Reynoso

No corrupt system of government can stop an idea whose
time has come. “We the people unite in solidarity will demise government
corruption and reclaim our country, our Constitutional Democratic Republic, our
freedom and the rule of law” Our United State is a country by the people and
for the people, with justice and liberty for all.

zionist

thomas jefferson said once, religion will be our biggest challenge and might be our ourdoing, before creatiing the USMC, and yet again before going into lybia, yet we have a president that thinks on behalf of americans, and still people are pooring tears, on september 11, where were those tears?! when people that came to get a days work, had to jump from a building?! and are we still remembering their names?! dont you fool ypursel, we are at war, not with the islam nation, but with the most extrem of idealism, the “salafists” most of you dont know what that word means. its basicly going back at the time of mohamed, their prophet, and follow, whatever is ornwas during that time, withput knowing other religions, withput the time of the crusade, ina time of peace, yet he toô the sword or he disciples, and brought war too all north africa, and they did convert anyone by the sword! after all that ask yourself’ did they comply of course not, not for a very long long time, they did still apply as they always did, piratie, thieverie, and yet, hostage taking. is it not common this days?! while we leaving in an age of numeric information. its goes as fast as the wind’ yet we forget our calm and yet muslims neighbors, dont forget, while in europe all you “soi disant enlightened” wanted jews blood, they went to north africa, and yet, they went to the US/canada and france and dont forget israel. what do you know about islam?! yet it means peace, for a religions of less than 1500 years old, how wise is it, at the end if the day?! think about it, and think again, and yet again before speaking.

Philip Harding

Do you feel represented? Then demand that you shall be heard. The ‘common mass’ has always won its fights by harassing the government and voting out the dead wood. I see no reason to change the relationship.
Many people don’t get that the real fight is on the local level. That is where the seeds of change are sown.

Steve Srader

America has lost it’s right to give a trusted person a durable power of attorney as who ever is given the durable power of attorney will not be allowed to preform their duty’s . I am the proof I have failed to help my Brother in the State of Arkansas: Big business and our government agencies will not allow you to do your duty’s none of them honor it : If anyone knows how to fix this and get back the people’s rights (Please Respond )

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